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I use Emacs both on Linux Mint and macOS. I use iSpell on both. On Linux, when I check the region, I have around 20 options for a misspelled word; on macOS, the same word will only display 2 or 3 options.

I installed Emacs with brew and ispell as well. ispell-program-name is pointing at /opt/homebrew/bin/ispell which seems OK to me.

How do I get ispell to show the same number of words?

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  • Are you sure you're actually using ispell on Linux? It's often an "aliased" to the superior aspell or hunspell. Commented Jun 1, 2023 at 16:18
  • This is correct...! Looks the same, but on Linux I have aspell, and on the Mac ispell. Now I need to figure out why in Linux it runs aspell even though the command I have is ispell-region, which does not exist on the Mac (just installed aspell from brew). Not sure how to get aspell to work on the Mac now, looking into it. Commented Jun 4, 2023 at 23:19
  • So no need to change anything. It's a bit odd, but when I'm checking ispell-program-name on the mac, it's already pointing to aspell. That's also what's going on in Linux. Commented Jun 4, 2023 at 23:28
  • Emacs just cascades through several options when setting the default for ispell-program-name, preferring aspell over ispell. You can see what's happening in lisp/textmodes/ispell.el or here Commented Jun 5, 2023 at 19:05

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